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Reza Shah Pahlevi has never been a bandit. . . . It is we and our national assembly that has given him the Crown...
Reza Pahlevi has indeed had his present status as Shah of Persia constitution-alized by Parliament, but his seizure of power was essentially a coup d'etat, staged by an officer who had frequently foraged supplies for his itinerant Cossack troops in the manner of a bandit...
...Washington police, forewarned by the U. S. State Department, were on hand to disperse and arrest a brigade of placard-bearers who appeared one day outside the White House in the name of the All-American Anti-Imperialist League. "Wall Street and not Sandino is the real bandit," said one placard. "We do not appeal to the White House but to the masses against the White House," said another. In the White House, unaware that his Nicaraguan policy was being so openly criticized, President Coolidge shook hands with other, flattered, peaceful tourists...
...jaunty, clean-limbed incumbent of the $30,000,000 Peacock Throne of Persia was once a swashbuckling bandit, Reza Khan. Today he is the Shahinshah, Reza Shah Pahlevi: "The King of Kings, Reza Pahlevi, Shah of Persia." He indulges in such luxuries as to allow to his 10-year-old son the Valiahd (Crown Prince) a civil list (allowance) of $2,000,000. But withal Shah Reza has not grown efféte or enervated. The old eagerness for battle kindled in his veins, last week, when news came that rebellious tribesmen were stirring in Luristan and had assassinated...
...scene just described was recently cartooned for Punch, British weekly, to visualize the recent successes of Signor Mussolini in stamping out large numbers of the secret bandit gangs or "Mafia" in Sicily (TIME, Oct. 24, Jan. 23). Punch put into the mouth of its nearly strangled brigand a gasp: "If you destroy our secret societies you kill romance." To this the burly-but-impeccable victor, Signor Mussolini, replies: "Fascismo is all the romance Italy needs!" Last week the real Signor Mussolini lived up to his cartooned likeness by ordering that suppression of the criminal class in Sardinia shall at once...